How to Juggle Three Balls

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Hi this is Jeremy on behalf of Expert Village. Going to conclude our basic juggling with the balls, moving in that third ball. Now with three balls, it's going to be hard to wrap your mind around this, but three balls is actually the same as doing two, the only thing is, is you don't stop. When you throw the first ball, it's going to go up and it's going to peak and so you're going to go ahead and throw the ball in this hand, it's going to go up and peak, and you have an extra ball in this hand so you just keep on going. Most people, though, panic, basically. You have plenty of time as you're throwing the balls. If you feel like you don't have enough time, throw them up a little bit higher. Give yourself some more time. If you find yourself running after them, that's a good sign that you're already panicking. Now when you hold the balls, whatever your dominant hand is, that's where you want to start the two of them. I usually hold one of the balls, the ball I'm going to throw first with my three fingers, my thumb, my pointer and middle finger. That way, I can hold, with the palm of my hand and my last two fingers, the other ball. So when I throw it, using the scooping motion again, that only one ball goes. It goes peaks, and as each one peaks, you throw the other one. Now I'm throwing lower than a lot of people do when they start and that's fine. As you get better and better at it, you can go as low, basically, as you want. But for starting now, you probably want to give yourself enough space so that you have enough time that you don't panic. Now if you find yourself running trying to catch the balls, easiest thing to do, put yourself up against a wall. After punching the wall a couple of times trying to catch the balls, negative reinforcement you learn not to throw them out as far. Because what's happening is you're letting it roll off your fingers and it's going forward instead of to the side which is where you want it to go. Now if you're having trouble with this step, go ahead and move back to the second step until you feel comfortable with it again, and then continue with it at the third step, never practicing more than fifteen minutes at a time.

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